Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 29, 2005 04:15 AM
I don't see any evidence of lying on the part of the OO.o team, as with my (rather complex) MS Word documents with embedded images, etc., I've yet to have a problem. I've been using OO.o since the beta build 638, and StarOffice 5.2 before that. In version 1.0.x, there were a few formatting differences with bullets that I recall, and one time I had to re-do a graphic, but this was nothing that I couldn't fix in less than a minute. Version 1.1.x was much better. The beta of OO.o v2.0 also seems quite good.
Based on your post, it sounds like you are a frequent user of OO.o. If you are running into compatibility issues with some of your documents, you are encouraged to let the OO.o development team know. This is what I did whenever I ran into an issue and is what Free and Open Source Software is all about.
Fortunately, Microsoft is moving to XML and, unless they try to play the patent lawsuit threat here, "secret" proprietary file formats will become a thing of the past. The sooner, the better.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 29, 2005 04:15 AMBased on your post, it sounds like you are a frequent user of OO.o. If you are running into compatibility issues with some of your documents, you are encouraged to let the OO.o development team know. This is what I did whenever I ran into an issue and is what Free and Open Source Software is all about.
Fortunately, Microsoft is moving to XML and, unless they try to play the patent lawsuit threat here, "secret" proprietary file formats will become a thing of the past. The sooner, the better.
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